Projects Summit 2013

Introduction

The OWASP Project Summit is a smaller version of the much larger OWASP Summits. This event activity gives our project leaders the opportunity to showcase their project progress, and have attendees sit down and work on project tasks during the event. It is an excellent opportunity to engage the event attendees, and it gives project leaders the chance to move forward on their project milestones while meeting new potential volunteers that can assist with future milestones.

Planning to sponsor 2 "senior developers" to attend the hack-a-thon and take the lead role on the development effort, they will be involved in the architecture aspect of the project and goal-building and attendees will be able to choose a component from the architecture to work on.

We will purchase a prize for the developer/team that accomplishes the most quality work scored based on complexity of the component(s) they will be working on. The judges for the prizes will be Jeff Williams, Kevin Wall and Chris Schmidt.

There will be a set of guidelines for entries – primarily, backwards compatibility and/or clear upgrade path from ESAPI 2.x, testability, and distribution model of the component.

Teams will be 1-4 developers; scores will be curved based on the size of the teams submitting the components. For example, a team of 4 developers submitting a key management component will score lower than a single developer submitting a key management component dependent on the quality of the submitted component. (These scoring guidelines are still under consideration).

Jeff Williams will be "kicking off" the hackathon by giving a short speech about ESAPI as the founding member of the project. I will also be giving a short speech on the future vision of ESAPI to set up the teams. The prize will be awarded at the closing of the conference.